martes, 31 de mayo de 2011

Hello, Shanghai

From Shanghai, two VIDEOS and some photos of graffiti artists outside the 50 Moganshan (I THINK, we went to a few) art district. This is a street officially open to graffiti artists, but I'm not sure if there is any government control over the images or who can participate. There isn't much graffiti or street art in China. I'm not sure what the penalties are for illegal grafs or tags, but considering the level of censorship the government extols over blogs, social media, and other forms of personal expression I'd imagine it's high.

Due to the my "language barrier" or inability to talk about anything in Mandarin apart from " I like" "I don't like" and "it's spicy," I didn't really understand what these two guys tags are. They were really nice though and did agree to let me film them. Unfortunately, they can't get on the blog from China, so I guess we'll never know their identities:(

Anyway the images are niiice and plentiful, so Enjoy!